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BE AWARE - ROOM NAME IS ONLY ANNOUNCED ON THE TRIGGERED ALARM,. ROOM NAME IS NOT RELAYED TO OTHER VOICE-ENABLED ALARMS I installed these alarms in five rooms of a three-story house using the existing interconnected alarm hard wiring. I followed the instructions to assign a room name to each alarm ("Basement", "Living Room", "Child's Bedroom", etc.). I thought it would be a great safety feature to hear which room a fire was detected in from any of the voice alarms in the house, especially if I was on the top floor and the basement alarm went off. When I tested each alarm, the other connected alarms also went off as expected, but they only announced "Fire!" and "Carbon Monoxide!", not the room name of the triggered alarm. The only alarm that announced the room name was the triggered alarm. This makes no sense to me, as a voice feature with room name capability seems useless if it doesn't send the room name to other voice-enabled alarms. BRK support was very helpful and said that this was how the alarm was designed to operate. They said they have a voice-enabled alarm (SCO500) that can send room name info to the other alarms, but it is battery powered only, not hard-wired. They said I would have to buy an optional power adapter (SA520) for each alarm. However, this would not allow me to mix some of my older hard-wired alarms on the same interconnect (as the SC7010BV did) - John